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 Joe DiPietro
 
        NY Times, Sun, Jun 08, 2003  DIAGRAMLESS
        5-Across : Key with only one sharp: Abbr.
        
            Author:
Joe DiPietro
            Editor:
Will Shortz
         
        Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 64, Blocks: 104
     
    
	
        
            
		
			Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the fourth square in the first row.
		
	 
            
            
		
			 |  |  | 1 S  | 2 A  | 3 L  | 4 S  |  |  |  | 5 G  | 6 M  | 7 A  | 8 J  |  |  |  | 
		
			 |  |  | 9 A  | L  | O  | T  |  |  |  | 10 O  | O  | N  | A  |  |  |  | 
		
			 |  | 11 L  | I  | E  | G  | E  | 12 S  |  | 13 O  | O  | L  | O  | N  | 14 G  |  |  | 
		
			 |  | 15 I  | S  | A  | I  | A  | H  |  | 16 B  | I  | D  | D  | E  | R  |  |  | 
		
			 | 17 L  | O  | O  | K  | C  | R  | O  | 18 S  | S  | E  | Y  | E  | D  | A  | 19 T  |  | 
		
			 | 20 I  | N  | N  |  |  | 21 N  | O  | T  | E  | S  |  |  | 22 O  | N  | O  |  | 
		
			23 A  | M  | E  | S  |  |  | 24 S  | T  | A  | R  | T  |  |  | 25 E  | D  | D  | 26 A  | 
		
			27 G  | E  | L  |  |  |  |  | 28 I  | R  | V  |  |  |  |  | 29 J  | O  | E  | 
		
			30 E  | T  | H  |  |  |  |  | 31 N  | E  | A  |  |  |  |  | 32 U  | L  | T  | 
		
			33 N  | R  | A  |  |  |  |  | 34 G  | I  | T  |  |  |  |  | 35 B  | I  | N  | 
		
			36 T  | E  | M  | 37 P  |  |  | 38 A  | R  | N  | I  | 39 E  |  |  | 40 L  | I  | S  | A  | 
		
			 | 41 E  | P  | I  |  |  | 42 R  | A  | T  | O  | N  |  |  | 43 A  | L  | T  |  | 
		
			 | 44 S  | T  | A  | 45 R  | 46 S  | I  | N  | O  | N  | E  | 47 S  | 48 E  | Y  | E  | S  |  | 
		
			 |  | 49 O  | N  | E  | L  | E  | G  |  | 50 A  | M  | E  | L  | I  | E  |  |  | 
		
			 |  | 51 N  | O  | T  | A  | T  | E  |  | 52 L  | I  | E  | I  | N  | S  |  |  | 
		
			 |  |  | 53 L  | A  | S  | T  |  |  |  | 54 E  | T  | A  | T  |  |  |  | 
		
			 |  |  | 55 A  | G  | H  | A  |  |  |  | 56 S  | O  | S  | O  |  |  |  | 
		
	
 
            © 2003, The New York Times
         
        
    
 
    
	
        
		
            Across
            1
Actor Mineo and namesakes : 
SALS5
Key with only one sharp: Abbr. : 
GMAJ9
10
Mrs. Charlie Chaplin : 
OONA11
13
15
16
17
20
21
Class scribblings : 
NOTES22
23
24
Get the ball rolling : 
START25
27
28
29
30
31
32
Last in a series: Abbr. : 
ULT33
Anti-gun control grp. : 
NRA34
35
36
Nonpermanent worker : 
TEMP38
"L.A. Law" attorney : 
ARNIE40
One of Bart's TV sisters : 
LISA41
42
43
44
49
What flamingos often stand on : 
ONELEG50
2001 Audrey Tautou film : 
AMELIE51
Prepare, as sheet music : 
NOTATE52
53
54
55
56
 
        
	 
        
		
            Down
            1
Une année has four of them : 
SAISONS2
Spring ___ (not hold water) : 
ALEAK3
4
5
6
Spoiled, as bread : 
MOLDY7
8
11
12
13
14
17
18
Gaze deeply at, as another's eyes : 
STAREINTO19
23
26
Guardian Life competitor : 
AETNA37
Instrument using a roll of paper : 
PIANOLA38
Short number at the opera : 
ARIETTA39
40
45
Put a new price on : 
RETAG46
47
48
 
        
	 
    
 
    
    Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle,  4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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